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...body of Mrs. Ada Bean was found on her bed by her employer and the janitor of the apartment building, James Edwards...
...whom most people consider the most accomplished novelist in English, Vladimir Nabokov, will publish his first new book since Pale Fire. Called Ada, it is Delphically described by the author as "an attempt to grapple with the problem of time." Saul Bellow, the man whom most of the other people consider the most accomplished novelist in English, has a new novel too. Like his bestselling Herzog, it will deal with urban intellectuals, more than ever a promising subject since Norman Podhoretz's Making It made...
...Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look and is, in effect, a massive box with a portico of sticklike, white concrete columns tacked on to suggest the Parthenon-or a Southern plantation mansion. "The result is Caricature Classicism," wrote the New York Times critic, Ada Louise Huxtable, "or Running Scared Modern...
...York Times, which yesterday endorsed Humphrey, reported that Galbraith had spoken in support of the ADA endorsement. Galbraith, who had seconded McCarthy's nomination at the Democratic convention in Chicago, was unavailable for comment...
...urge Humphrey to build on his anti-bombing statement of last Monday night," the ADA statement said, "with a forthright call for an unconditional cessation of the bombing here...